In 1948 Perkins ran against the incumbent Congressman from Kentucky's 7th District, Wendell H. Meade.

In 1966, Riegle, then 28 years old and a moderate Republican, defeated incumbent Democratic U. S. Representative John C. Mackie to be elected from Michigan's 7th congressional district to the 90th Congress.

One of her brothers, Jim Henley, ran as a Democrat in the 2006 election for Texas's 7th congressional district but lost to incumbent Congressmember John Culberson ; he was elected to the Harris County Department of Education Position Seven At-Large in late 2008.

In 1999, Ferguson moved to the 7th district where Republican incumbent Bob Franks had announced his retirement to run for the United States Senate.

Weldon first ran for a seat in the U. S. House of Representatives for the 7th district of Pennsylvania in 1984 on the Republican ticket but lost to incumbent Democrat Rep. Robert W. Edgar.

In 1940, after longtime Republican incumbent George Darrow decided to retire, Scott was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district.

After one term in the Tennessee House of Representatives, he ran for Congress, challenging 12-term incumbent and former Crump machine ally Tom J. Murray in the Democratic primary for the 7th Congressional District, which was based in Jackson and included Adamsville.

McIntyre entered the Democratic primary for the 7th District after 20-year incumbent Charlie Rose retired.

In 1948 Perkins ran against the incumbent Congressman from Kentucky's 7th District, Wendell H. Meade.

Culberson won the Republican nomination for the 7th District in 2000 after 15-term incumbent Bill Archer announced his retirement.

Walker made his first try for government office in 1990 at age 22, winning the Republican nomination for Milwaukee's 7th District seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly, but losing in the general election to incumbent Democrat Gwen Moore.

Stender was the Democratic Party nominee for New Jersey's 7th congressional district ( map ), where she faced off against Republican incumbent Mike Ferguson.

His father's final marriage was to his then private secretary, Yvonne Marie Sutton in 1974, giving him three more half-siblings, the incumbent Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol, and media personalities Lady Victoria Hervey and Lady Isabella Hervey.

According to the legendary Historia Regum Britanniae, of Geoffrey of Monmouth, London was founded by Brutus of Troy after he defeated the incumbent giants Gog and Magog and was known as, ( Latin for New Troy ), which, according to a pseudo-etymology, was corrupted to Trinovantum.

The physical wire connection between the local exchange and the customer is known as a " local loop ", and is owned by the incumbent local exchange carrier ( also referred to as the " ILEC ", " local exchange ", or in the United States either a " Baby Bell " or an independent telephone company ).

However, most boil down to two simple components: local loop ( the cost the local incumbent charges to transport the signal from the end user's central office, otherwise known as a CO, to the point of presence, otherwise known as a POP, of the carrier ) and the port ( the cost to access the telephone network or the Internet through the carrier's network ).

There are claims circulating that this whole event was fabricated by the President incumbent for his own devious purposes-however the veracity of these claims is not known, as no corroborating evidence has as yet been brought forward.

Toward the end of his term, the incumbent president in consultation with party leaders, selected the PRI's candidate in the next election in a procedure known as " the tap of the finger " ().

An incumbent of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics, also known as Lucasian Professor, is the title of a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England.

No formal attempts on getting papal approval for the structure chosen at Rathbreasail are known before Malachy sought pallia for the two incumbent archbishops at Cashel and Armagh.

The Leader of the Opposition is seen as the alternative Prime Minister, Premier or Chief Minister to the incumbent and heads a rival alternative government known as the Shadow Cabinet or Opposition Front Bench.

Andy Carter then lost the general election to incumbent Democrat Joseph M. Montoya, who later became nationally known as a member of the Senate Watergate Committee.

The consort of any incumbent would be known as the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

In the year 750, Abu al -' Abbas al-Saffah ( As-Saffah ), the founder of the Abbasid Caliphate, launched a massive rebellion ( known as the Abbasid Revolution ) against the incumbent Umayyad Caliphate from the province of Khurasan.

The St. John the Baptist Parish, more commonly known as the " Pinaglabanan Church ", is where the city's patron saint is enshrined and is where the city's incumbent congressman J. V. Ejercito was married.

He or she is invariably seen as the alternative Taoiseach to the present incumbent, and heads a rival alternative government known as the Front Bench, however, all the other non-government parties have their own front benches as well.

" Daisy ", sometimes known as " Daisy Girl " or " Peace, Little Girl ," was a controversial political advertisement aired on television during the 1964 United States presidential election by incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson's campaign.

An incumbent local exchange carrier ( ILEC ), is a local telephone company in the United States that was in existence at the time of the breakup of AT & T into the Regional Bell Operating Companies ( RBOCs ), also known as the " Baby Bells.

The Whigs believed that Jones, widely known as an entertaining speaker and storyteller, was their best shot to defeat the eloquent and witty incumbent, James K. Polk.

59 violated the norm of Dagbon custom that no successor to any Naa should be known or determined during the reign of the incumbent, that there was no customary rotation between the two gates in Dagbon custom and constitution and that the Gbon Lana of a Ya Naa has an equal right to ascend the skins of Yani as the occupants of the three gate skins.

This meant that if the Republicans could have established true party discipline, they could have chosen either to retain Wilder or replace him ; however, since several incumbent Republicans who were either reelected or whose terms did not expire in this election cycle were known to be allies and close friends of Wilder, the outcome that was considered to be most likely by most close observers was that these Republicans would join with the Democratic minority to continue Wilder's working majority and that he would be reelected Lieutenant Governor.

In later years, the health portfolio was occasionally coupled with that for social welfare portfolio, in which case the incumbent was known as the Minister for Health and Social Welfare.

He worked for the Duquesne Light Company, and in 1945 was approached by a group of Republicans who wanted to defeat the incumbent mayor, a position then known as burgess.

In 1338 the latest incumbent of many, Englishman Sir Ralph de Neville was besieged by Sir William Douglas, The Knight of Liddesdale, known as the " Flower of Chivalry ", which sobriquet had to do with his abilities as a knight although it is often misinterpreted by people with a rather romantic view of history.

It is named for the late Congressman John M. Ashbrook, an Ohio Republican best known for having run a largely symbolic campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 1972, against the incumbent Richard Nixon, to protest what some saw as Nixon's failure to live up to conservative principles such as constitutionally limited government, reducing federal spending, and uncompromising anti-communism.

In 1972 Hays made an unsuccessful attempt for election to the Ninety-third Congress as a representative from North Carolina, losing to the Republican incumbent, Wilmer Mizell ( also known as " Vinegar Bend " Mizell ).

A sleeper candidate is a candidate for public office who does little or no campaigning, hoping to ride into office by being confused with a better known person, or by just being the alternative to a well-known but widely disliked incumbent, or on the strength of good ballot position and a not very visible grassroots organization, or even on the strength of a popular ethnic name ; or alternatively, a candidate for whom expectations are so low that a strong performance could propel them to victory.

Johnny T. Pimentel is the ninth and incumbent Provincial Executive.

When 6th District incumbent Johnny Isakson declined to run for reelection in order to run for the U. S. Senate, Price entered the Republican primary for the seat.

By tradition, the fair was officially opened by the incumbent mayor at 11 am on the May Day bank holiday.

The seat had opened up when 36-year incumbent Democrat and former House Armed Services Committee chairman F. Edward Hébert retired.

The Atwater-Rove style drew sharp scrutiny and criticism, and opened a new venue for study of executive management style, as scholars sought to examine to what extent incumbent politicians who used " black ops " to gain power would also deploy the same staff and techniques to maintain power and control once they are elected.

In 2004, Costa entered the Democratic primary for the 20th District, which was opened up by the retirement of its seven-term incumbent, Cal Dooley.

In the season, Kim got the closer role when incumbent Matt Mantei opened the season on the disabled list.

The festival is opened by a ceremony in which the incumbent Lord Mayor of Stuttgart tries to tap the first barrel of beer with as few hits as possible.